The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-15

advanced. Now a heavy tramp NAL,
her quake, and a tall, burlv a "na'
keeper met her. 7"u"
"Well, little one, where are vor
ing?" asked he, kindly enough, EVEN.
her from his giant height. Ns
"Please, sir, have you seen \ dali
met one'' was the silvery little opss.
ton in response. 4'VS
"No, dear; have you lost suob .
creature?' smiled the man.
"Oh! 'tisn't a creature, but .
little darling girl, and she's t%ransno,,
ed" replied Elsie. "'
Transported! Who transpor,oa
her?" U
"Oh. somebody, a big, cruel hovn
returned the child, as obscure as q,
oracle.
AYE, surf to be a boy at the root 4,
such work as that. Still, I'd 90 home
if | were You, or you'll be lost or trans.
ported yourself" urged the man,
NO. on! no, the Lady Anne will
want me.'
"Well, don't 60 far was the rep,r
Then the man tramped on, smiling t
such baby make-believe, and yerv
soon forgot all about the transported
mite and her small seeker. Right and
left glanced Elsie's blue ewes. but M
Lady Anne was to be seen. only tha
gloom. the mystery. the green angle Of
leaves and the sunbeams fitting and
straying, as if they too were scekin,
and searching. Now a little old woman
met her.
please ma'am, have you met 4
doll?' asked the little pleading tongue.
''No, dearie; did you think Ihad?"
was the kindly answer.
"les; there's n transported here.
and I'm afraid she'll be lost
ElSie's tears were not far away now:
she was so lonely and anxious, and the
woods were so solemn.
Ah' "i' tVu lobhliig lbl ntT.
asked the kind old woman.
"Yes, l am looking for her"
"Tllen | wouldn't, OF you'll be lost
Come back along of me-" coaxed the
kindly soul.
But mo, no, I must find her" plead.
ed the child. and tripped away. farther
and farther into the wood, farther from
home, but, as it seemed, no nearer
whatever to her pet. the Lady Anne,
although her heart craved and hoped
she was.
Now she trippcd through the white
barricr-gate. All! whittier were her
feet carrying her? There was Il disused
well somewhere in this second wood,
and a yawning stone quarry, long left
u%nworked, but terribly trrarhrrous tn
unwary feet, overgrown with rank
vegetation as it was. Poor little Elsie!
the briars and brushwood We're so dense
here that they took hold of her like de.
tanning hands at every step. and, some.
how, darkness came steadily on all too
readily, and strange sounds like the
rush of wild beasts made her heart
culver with terror.
ooh. Lady Anne! Lady Anne"
moaned she, rs though the inanimate
thing, if near, could answer her. Now
n snake wriggled past, and she
screamed with alright. A good thing
that the reptile was harmless, Il good
thing for the child's senses that it dis
appeared; but the small, forlorn thing
was in a maz of bcwildcrment. and
the dusky woods seemed tccming with
horrors. And still no Lady Anne, no
small bundle of wax and finery, met
her eyes in the gloom. All! what was
that? A clear space with red sunbeams
and seeking over the green
'ward, and there, dangling among
Tense growth of underwood and rank
was the long-sought pup.
'et-the Lady Anne.
ION. my love, my darling!' cried the
delighted child.
All, there. there, through bush,
trough bramble, she darted, but what
vas that9 A hurtling. a clutching, q
The Lady Anne and her
had fallen down somewhere
Trough the clutching bushes. No, not
ne Lady Anne, she still dangled there,
unconscious. Then there was
mighty hush, the trees nodded and
hook their heads, the sunbeams crept
way affrighted. The sweet day was
.ying there as well as out in the open
onntry, and about poor Elsie's home,
'here the child was not.
"Where is Elsiep" was the question
I her father. and Of kindly Patty too,
mo had been too busy to miss her be-
ore.
All! Bert knew, coming in with his